This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn’t take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully… even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope…

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    184·
    2 days ago

    I have literally never played a game and encountered an obvious cheater and if I did, I think I’d just change servers. Is this really such a huge problem and if so, what are its consequences beyond maybe being annoyed for 5 minutes?

    • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Some people take their game worlds entirely too seriously. I find far too many in the competitive gaming scene treat video game accomplishments/loot/losses on the same level as real-world ones.

    • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      Some games, like Tarkov, are plagued with cheaters, but Linux plays no part in any of it.

      • Zirconium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        First time I went into labs I encountered a cheater, that’s when I learned to not play tarkov. Especially solo good lord

    • warm@kbin.earth
      11·
      2 days ago

      I’ve come across many, is it annoying? Sure. Is it the end of the world? No. You just leave the lobby/server and go in a fresh one.

      No cheating is bad enough to justify a rootkit.

      I’ve also been called a cheater a lot and they always sound very convinced even though they have no idea at all. I imagine these are the same people constantly complaining about cheating.

    • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      Hundreds of hours in Marvel Rivals and I’ve also never encountered anyone I was sure was a cheater. Nor have any of the friends I play with, and I’ve never had anyone on voice tell me about encountering a cheater.

      I’ve definitely had a handful of matches cancel with an alert that a cheater was detected though.

      Maybe I’m lucky. Maybe kernel-level anti-cheat is a farce.